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One of the knocks against solid-state drives (SSDs) was that, despite the higher level of performance they offered, they weren’t as durable as their counterparts, hard disk drive (HDD). As a result, the opinion prevailed that they just couldn’t be counted on. At least not for the long haul, anyway. There was always the fear […]

Rising user expectations. Concern over how applications perform. Rapidly advancing and changing security threats. The desire to balance operational simplicity with cost optimization. Sound familiar? They’re just a few of the headaches companies face with their branch office and wide area networks.   As organizations have expanded to cover more territory, these networks have become […]

The term Organizational Effectiveness has become a trend in businesses lately. It refers to how well companies are able to achieve the goals and outcomes that they’ve laid out. High organizational effectiveness requires creating work environments that engage employees and enable them to do their best. As we already talked about in Making Social Learning […]

Experts are predicting data centers everywhere are about to be hit with a massive increase in the amount of work they’re expected to handle. Is yours going to be ready to manage all of that extra traffic? By 2018, global data center IP traffic is estimated to almost triple from where it stood back in […]

It’s been called “groundbreaking” and “almost peerless,” and it’s been lurking in the wilds of the cyber landscape undetected since at least 2008. It’s a piece of malware known as “Regin,” and it has thoroughly impressed – and baffled – hardened security experts since its recent discovery. The malware, which was first made public by […]

The season of giving has only just gotten started, but Cisco is clearly already in the holiday spirit. Forget about tacky sweaters, this year the networking giant is offering something customers will likely be much more interested in: a chance to save while upgrading their Cisco collaboration endpoints. Recently, Cisco announced customers would be able […]

It’s one of the most fundamental challenges facing IT teams right now: Providing a secure and efficient way for users to collaborate with each other, even as those same users become more mobile and less tied to one specific type of workstation. At the Collaboration Summit 2014, Cisco announced a new business application which would […]

The early forecasts are in and it looks like the cloud is going to occupy an even more prominent place on the to-do lists of IT leaders in the coming years. That’s one of the takeaways from a pair of recent studies which examined the projects companies expect to invest the most in over the […]

Faster problem resolution, a more-streamlined IT environment. Those are the kinds of things that make all IT leaders stand up and take notice. Something else that’s bound to catch their eye, especially in today’s world of tight budgets, the word free. Industry-leading cloud and virtualization provider VMware is putting its money where its mouth is and […]

Heads up: Microsoft has just released a critical update needed to patch an elevation of privilege vulnerability lurking in Kerberos KDC. This flaw – known as Kerberos Checksum Vulnerability – could give an attacker the ability to increase the privileges of a standard user account up to the level of domain administrator. From there, the […]